Brilliant thinking, guys. Every Democrat who is accused of any infraction -no matter how questionable or mild, or accidental - should resign. And every Republican accused of far worse - Start with Trump and Moore - will lie and say it never happened, or just ignore it. And in a few years, when Trump and his buddies have turned America into a kleptocracy (assuming we've somehow avoided nuclear devastation) we can all stand around with our thumbs up our asses and say, "Golly. Gosh. How did that all happen?"
Yes, what Franken did was sophomoric. (But it's pretty obvious from the photo with Leeann Tweeden that his hands aren't even touching her - it was clearly a gag shot. Bad taste, but hardly a hanging offense) And grabbing Lindsay Menz's ass during a photo (and then apparently altering the photo to she looked like she was enjoying the moment) may or may not have been accidental but, again, it's not a hanging offense.
Yes, it shouldn't have happened. And we should do everything possible to raise public consciousness to make sure that incidents like these - and all of the seriously worse things that Trump and Moore and Harvey Weinstein, etc., have done - shouldn't occur. But to talk seriously about Al Franken resigning over this - to remove an experienced and conscientious voice from the Senate because of this incident - is totally asinine.
Related situation. While Democrats were wringing their hands and overreacting for the last decade or more over situations like this, the Republicans were systematically pushing through gerrymandered districts and limitations on voting in state after state, so that - in Virginia, to take the most recent example - Democrats got far more total votes in ballots for the House of Delegates, but Republicans will probably (a number of districts are undergoing a recount) maintain a slim majority in seats. It's the electoral college problem - and Hillary's 3MM vote lead, versus Trump's victory - in state after state. But the individual states are easier to address. And it would help if we focused on things like that, and not wallowing in nonsense about Al Franken. He apologized. Compared to everything else that's going wrong with this nation, it's trivial. End of subject.
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